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Show LABEL RELATES TO CONTENTS ONLY, SAYS THE COURT WASHINGTON, May 30 Medicine which is nothing but sweetened water or pills composed of colored mud, mav he labeled "cures," and soli) as such with impunity undsr ths national pure food ana drug- act, according to a de cision rendered todsy br the Tntted tntes supreme court in the case of Dr. C. A. Johnson nf Kansas City. Mo. Provided there is ao misstatement on the bottle or package sa to its eoutents, the manufacturer is free to sell hts feeds. Justice Holme announced the majority opinion. Justice Hughes tie livrrinff a diaaentiing opinion iu which Justices Hsrlaa and Day concurred. The eourt acknowledged that "in a oertaiit sen so ths statement on the label la-bel was false or at least mialeadfng," but it held that the language nf the pure 'food law ia such that the statement state-ment contained therein as to t be meaning mean-ing of tnishrsnding ' ia aimed not at sll possible falae ststements, but only at auch as determine the identity nf the article, possibly includiug its strength, quality and puritr. " WASHINGTON. May 3W That the Philippine islands are not a country foreign for-eign to the United Rtates so far as the re ven us Iswd are concerned wss again decided by ths I'nited Htates supreme i court when it held tbst importers of hriparafrmnT bring them into tbia country at a rate of duty 21 per cent leas than waa paid on Fbilippine eigara. |